{"product_id":"9780863584329","title":"Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays","description":"A study in critical readership, this wide-ranging collection of essays challenges accepted theories on everything from classics such as Charlotte Brontë's \u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e to more contemporary works like Margaret Atwood's \u003ci\u003eLife Before Man\u003c\/i\u003e. Explored are ideas of sexual subversion and queer politics. Literature's sacred cows are reevaluated, and new ways to explore both reading and writing are offered.\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: \u003ci\u003ePatricia Duncker\u003c\/i\u003e is a professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eHallucinating Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Dillon's First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize and has been translated into nine languages. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eSeven Tales of Sex and Death\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Doctor\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rivers Oram Press\/Pandora Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032909824240,"sku":"9780863584329","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780863584329_p0.gif?v=1763831581","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780863584329","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}